The afternoon sun shone into the warm, empty library, leaving a narrow grid of light on the red-lacquered floor. The floor near the pane has been exposed to sunlight all day long, and has faintly shown signs of fading.

Heavy snow fell from noon to early morning yesterday, and the entire city of Highlandsa was covered in a blanket of silver.

The snow stopped, there was no wind, and people on the streets of the city were clearing the thick snow.

In the library of the Knight Academy, the cadet knights don't like it, and these young people prefer the outdoors.

Almost half of the books in the library are textbooks of various subjects, which were prepared for the Cadet Knights to borrow.

Cadet knights studying at the Knight Academy do not need to prepare various books in advance, and all the textbooks they need for class can be borrowed in the library with the house badge.

These books are free for students and in principle there is no additional cost to buy them as long as they are not damaged.

Much of the remaining collection in the library is related to the history of the Grimm Empire, and of course there are also biographies of knight rangers who have trained and explored.

Some ranger biographies are recorded in the form of diaries, which are very realistic, and of course some are memoirs or add some exaggerated fictional stories, which have a better reading experience, such as some ranger biographies will say that through a certain time and space rift, they entered the dragon kingdom and became a dragon slayer warrior.

Of course, today, after the dragon knight disappeared for nearly a hundred years, the dragon knight has become a legend in the eyes of the imperial people, but every trainee knight has a dream of becoming a dragon knight in his heart.

In some books, there is often a plot that describes a chance encounter with the Night Elf Queen in a certain forest, and spends three unforgettable nights with her, after reading too much of this kind of adventure, it will make people feel that the Night Elf Queen is more like a street girl, and can do whatever she wants without giving money, and finally before parting, he will also get an epic weapon built by an elf craftsman or something, and this kind of ranger biography in the library is almost ruined by the trainee knights.

On weekends, the library was deserted, with only a few female students sitting in the corner of the library.

They were regular visitors to the library, and Surdak often saw them when he came to the library to borrow historical materials, but he didn't have any thoughts about underage girls who were nearly ten years younger than him.

The young magician Lance revealed some information to Surdak, according to the information obtained by the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Team, a total of six black magicians were hiding in Grenfell Manor for the study of black magic, except for Grenfell's Lady Margaret, the remaining five black magicians are all at large, but the magicians of the law enforcement group do not know for the time being, the black mage Cyrus who robbed Surdak. Hickok had died in the red pine forest.

Cyrus Hickok's magic notes sit in front of the square table in the reading room.

Surdak was taking out a copy of the Grimdim Chinese General Record from the shelf, this thick parchment book was covered with thick dust, Surdak blew gently, the dust filled the entire shelf, Surdak hurriedly walked out of the bookshelf area with the book.

He had been looking up information in the library for most of the day, but unfortunately he was sorry for the dark mage Cyrus. Hickok's magic notebook is still at the preliminary stage of understanding, and there are a lot of Cyrus recorded in this magic notebook. Hirkok's magician's experience in black magic, there were many unintelligible words in his notes, and Surdak looked up in the reading room for a long time before he figured out that many of the words that recorded magic were not in the imperial Chinese language, and Surdak could not find books about these words in the library of the Knight Academy.

Therefore, for this magic notebook, Surdak can only understand a small part of the content, he tried to disassemble and transcribe some unintelligible words on a blank parchment, ready to ask Lance if he has time, in the Grimm Empire, every magician has a very good imperial education, and the young magicians who can join the law enforcement team of the Magic Union are all top students in the previous magic academies.

Of course, there are some things in the magic notes that Surdak can still understand, including the detailed records of several magical herbs by the magician Cyrus Hickok.

Let him finally figure out the specific names and effects of the several magic herbs in the magic waist bag, Surdak is ready to find an opportunity to send these magic herbs to the auction house, now the magic herbs in the magic market are so tight, it should be able to sell them for a good price, it is best to exchange them for the magic materials that Ferdinand magician needs, he now has little sand wolf head left in the magic waist bag, once he loses the buff effect of the blessed body, he may not be able to suppress the black curse on his legs by himself.

Originally, Surdak had planned to hunt sand wolves in the wild, but a sudden heavy snowfall completely discouraged him, and he had to start a new plan, preparing to try his luck at the auction house in the city of Highlandza, even if he couldn't buy those magic herbs, maybe he could buy cheaper sacrifices.

As for the strange magic materials in the magic belt pack, although there are also relevant records in this magic notebook, but there is no specific description of the appearance characteristics, Surdak is a little confused about what these magic materials are.

Turning to the back of the magic note, the black mage Cyrus Hicock recorded a magic array in the note, Surdak vaguely felt that the pattern of this magic array was the magic array that he saw in the cave behind Grenfell Manor, but the magic array on the magic note was more finely drawn, and there were some annotations written by Cyrus Hicock in many places, and there were several pages of text behind it, all of which were explaining this magic array.

There is a passage in the notebook that records the beginning and end of the seclusion of several black mages in the city of Highlandza.

The mission of the six of them is to reproduce the magic circle of the Dark Summoning Gate, according to the guidance of the astrologer, the six of them came to the city of Highlanza to find some clues, in order to be able to find a hidden hiding place, the six people chose this red pine forest outside the city of Highlandsa, they used black magic to kill the wife of a baron, and one of the six magicians named Margaret married the baron, this baron is officially Baron Greenfield.

Since then, Baron Grenfell's estate has become a hideout for the Dark Arts Order, and they have also succeeded in developing Baron Grenfell into a peripheral member of the Dark Arts Order, Cyrus Hicock Wizard does not think that this is Margaret's credit, he feels that this matter should be thanks to Samia, if it is not for Sameya who successfully slept with Baron Grenfell, it may not be easy to persuade Baron Grenfell to join the Dark Arts Order.

The following words are recorded at the back of the magic note:

Only by borrowing the Dark Goddess to break the constraints of the laws of the world can the Gate of Dark Summoning be recreated. The terror demons in the Flame Hell are repelled by the power of the laws of the world, but the Goddess of Darkness has succeeded in bringing the Apostle into the world, and the Dark Apostle must have mastered the secrets of the laws of the world in the Roland Continent.

On the last page of this dark magic notebook, there is a portrait of Selena of Girls' Generation, this portrait is lifelike, but there is a crescent-like magic pattern tattooed on her forehead, and those eyes also reveal a powerful and confident gaze, Surdak stares at the eyes of the portrait, his gaze seems to be attracted by the deep gaze of the portrait, just a portrait immerses him in it, and he can hardly extricate himself.

He saw in those eyes the endless darkness, just as he was about to sink. When he was reduced to the Endless Void, a divine light shone out from the bottom of his heart, making him completely sober.

The moment Surdak woke up, he quickly closed the magic notebook, and the moment the page on the magic note closed, Surdak felt that the portrait didn't look like Selena anymore.

Then the inexplicable power full of dark aura disappeared from his spiritual world, and he gasped and touched his forehead, which was covered with cold sweat.

He closed the magic notebook, pinched the corners of his eyes with his hand a little tiredly, and finally figured out the reason why these magicians of the Dark Magic Retreat were doing everything possible to find Selena, and until now, these Dark Magic Retreat members have not given up looking for Selena, and it is actually related to the Dark Summoning Gate.

After closing the magic notebook, Surdak remembered that he had to rush to the guard barracks.

Got up and left the library, walked to the stable at the back of the academy, and led his Gubolai horse out through the side door and out of the academy.

The snow on the streets has not been cleared, but all the sidewalks for people to walk have been cleared.

Surdak rode his horse through the wealthy area of the city of Highlandsa, and not far away lay a homeless man on a bench, who got up from the bench and wanted to come over and beg Surdak, only when he saw Surdak's chest. After the former knight's badge, he immediately limped into a narrow alleyway, not even daring to turn his head.

Surdak was a little speechless, and thought to himself: This is probably the deterrent power of the knights of the guard battalion, after all, the title of knight lord is not called in vain.

The death of the aristocratic boy Vic made the nobles of Highlandsa City hate the Dark Arts Retreat, and the living space of the Dark Magicians in Hylandsa City was further compressed, perhaps only by hiding in the sewers where the homeless people lived, would they not be discovered, and some noble councilors proposed more than once in the council that they wanted to clean up some of the homeless people in Hylandsa City, so that they might be able to completely eradicate the remnants of the Dark Arts Retreat.

Ivan. Baruch is currently in prison in the Magical Guild, and even Lance doesn't know what the young knight has told the interrogator.

According to Karl, the Baruch couple are raising money everywhere to find a way to bring Ivan Ivan to the team. Baruch was fished out of prison, but it seemed that nothing had progressed in the matter.

The snow in the guard camp has been cleared, Surdak put the horses in the stables, stopped when he walked to the door of the main building, sorted out the light leather armor on his body before entering the door, and when he went upstairs, he happened to see Gwendoline holding a stack of thick reports running down from the upper floor, in such a cold weather, Gwendoline was still wearing a skirt and uniform, after she saw Surdak, her face was immediately full of smiles, and she said to him: "Surdak, good job!" "I passed by him.

Surdak was confused by this remark, but he didn't think much about it afterwards and walked directly to Captain Sauron's office on the second floor.

Knock on the door and walk into the room.

Captain Sauron stood on the desk and flipped over the parchment full of words, his thick eyebrows almost twisted together, and when he looked up and saw Surdak, he nodded to him, motioned for him to sit on the chair opposite, and said directly: "Call you this time......"

Captain Sauron said to Surdak: Although he did not receive any reward for the incident at Grenfell Manor last time, his merits were recorded.

This time, he found a member of the Dark Arts Retreat at Christie's Castle and rescued Miss Hoyle. Marquis Christie's praise by name, although Surdak joined the guard battalion support squadron for just over a month and did not meet the promotion conditions, but because of Surdak's outstanding performance, Surdak was exceptionally promoted to the deputy squad leader of the support squadron.

Of course, since Surdak is currently studying at the Knight Academy, and does not belong to any of the ten squads of the support squadron, this squad leader is only a fictitious position, except for being able to receive an extra ten silver hammers per month, some benefits have been slightly increased, and that's it.

Captain Sauron clumsily held the quill and said to Surdak, "You'll need to go to Lady Flora's and re-register the guard battalion badge, and if it's okay, you can leave." ”

"Yes, Captain Sauron!" Surdak straightened his back and walked out of Captain Sauron's office.

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Surdak walked into a noisy tavern and saw Carl sitting next to the bar, smiling and chatting with the proprietress in the bar.

Behind Carl sat a familiar figure, it was the Bird tax collector who sent him to Wall Village, but at this time the Bird tax officer looked drunk, his body was already a little tilted, supported on the bar with one hand, holding half a glass of ale in his hand, and the huge beer belly was almost against the bar, which couldn't help but make Surdak a little worried, he fart. Will the stool under his thighs be able to hold up his heavy body?

Surdak sat down beside Karl and saw that the tax collector was already red from drinking, and his tongue was a little disobedient when he spoke.

"Don't look at me like that, it's none of my business, I happened to see Bird sitting here alone drinking when he was already a little too drunk." Karl raised his innocent hand and explained to Surdak.

"Sauron...... What benefits have been given to you? Carl asked casually.

Surdak told Captain Sauron about the reward, and Karl couldn't help but pout and said, "Captain Sauron is good everywhere, but he is too hard in terms of merit......"

Karl didn't say much.

The proprietress handed over a glass of ale, and the two raised their glasses and bumped into each other.